Building construction.



PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905.

I J. BABIOZKY. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15. 190 1.

JOSEPH BABIOZKY, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed February 15, 1904. Serial No. 193,718;

To all whom it may concern:

building blocks and walls; and it consists in certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The object of my present invention is to improve and simplify the construction of devices of this character, and thereby render them stronger and more durable in use and less expensive to produce.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a wall constructed of my improved building-blocks. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing how the interlocking blocks may be adjusted farther apart to increase the width of the wall. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 1 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the interlocking blocks. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the other interlocking block. Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view through a wall constructed of interlocking blocks of a slightly-difierent form from those shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, of the drawings, the numerals 1 and 2 denote my improved interlocking buildingblocks, which, are molded, pressed, or otherwise formed of concrete, cement, clay, or any other suitable material. Each of the blocks 1 comprises a rectangular body 3, formed upon its inner face at its center with two vertically-disposed parallel ribs 4, which project at right angles to the said inner face of the body portion and form a space 5 between them. Each of the blocks 2 comprisesa body portion 6, which is similar in size and shape to the body 3 of the block 1, and which is formed at each of its ends upon its inner face with right-angularly projecting vertically-disposed flanges7, which are equal in width to onehalf of the width of the spaces 5, so that the said flanges 7 on the abutting ends of two adjacent blocks 2 will fit between the spaced ribs 4 on the blocks 1, as shown. In building the wall shown in the first four figures of the drawings the said blocks 1 and 2 are so arranged that they interlock vertically and longitudinally as well as transversely-that is, the courses of the inner and outer faces of the wall are out of horizontal alinement, as seen in Fig. 4, and the blocks of said courses break joints vertically and horizontally. It will be seen that the oppositely-faced wall courses are composed, respectively, of blocks 1, placed end to end, and of blocks2similarly placed, with the flanges 7 of the latter telescoping between the ribs 4 of the former. By providing the blocks with said telescoping flanges and ribs the wall may be built of any desired width within reasonable limits by simply adjusting the blocks 1 and 2 toward or from each other, as will be readily understood. Any suitable mortar or cement may be used for securing the blocks together, and it will be understood that the same is placed between the flanges and ribs as well as be tween the top and bottom surfaces of the blocks. The portions of the spaces 5 not filled by the flanges7 are preferably filled with mortar, as at 8, to more effectively secure the blocks together, and, if desired, metal tierods 9 may be fixed vertically in the spaces 10 between the blocks to add to the strength and durability of the wall by embedding them in mortar 10 in said spaces, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated in Fig. 7 of the drawings the wall, which is constructed similarly to the one just described, is composed of but one form of block. This block, denoted by the numeral 11, embodies features of both of the blocks 1 and 2 that is, it has on its inner face adjacent to its center spaced ribs 12, which correspond to the ribs 1 on the blocks 1, and on the same face at one of its ends a flange 13, which is similar to the flanges 7 on the blocks 2. As clearly shown in Fig. 7, the flanges and ribs telescope to permit the blocks in the different courses to be adjusted toward and from each other when the wall is being built, in order to vary its width, and the blocks are laid to secure the same interlocking effects as described in connection with the preferred form of my invention.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A Wall composed of building-blocks facing in opposite directions and having coengaging flanges projecting from their inner sides, in slidable overlapping relation to prevent independent endwise movement of the blocks and permit them to be moved toward and from each other laterally to vary the thickness of a wall formed by them, said blocks being disposed in longitudinal overlapping relation, to break joints, vertically, substantially as described.

2. A wall composed of building-blocks facing in opposite directions and respectively in different horizontal planes, and in vertical overlapping relation, to'break joints, horizontally, and having coengaging flanges projecting from their inner sides in slidable overlapping relation, to prevent independent endwise movement of the blocks and permit them to be moved toward and from each other laterally to vary the thickness of the wall, substantially as described.

3. Building-blocks facing in opposite directions, and having coengaging flanges projecting from their inner sides, in slidable overlapping relation, to prevent independent endwise movement of the blocks and adapted to be moved toward and from each other laterally to vary the thickness of a wall formed by them, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH BABICZKY.

Witnesses:

HENRY O. LAMBERT, GUsTAvE KATING. 

